JANUARY 2014 LIVE PERFORMANCES by SAMM BENNETT & his various GROUPS

The Metaphors is the trio of Shimizu Hiroshi (various percussion), Marcos Fernandes (frame drum, talking drum, other percussion) and Samm Bennett (diddley bow, percussion, vocal). If you don't know the band, you certainly should, so check here! This will be the Metaphors' third appearance (or is it fourth?) at Big River, a friendly little jazz bar just a stone's throw from Higashi Nakano station on the JR Sobu line. Very old school, at-the-bar flavor, nice and intimate. It's in one of those little bar zones, you know what I mean. The kind of places that make Tokyo great.

FRI 1/31 : Drunk Poets See God # 12(features solo performances from Samm as well as his musical accompanying of various poets)

Yes friends, it's time for the 12th installment of DRUNK POETS SEE GOD, where some of Tokyo's most engaging wordsmiths get on the mic and show their stuff. Hosted by by Samm Bennett, singer and poet Sorcha Chisolm and spoken word titan Frank Spignese, this is the place to be for those who want to get on the mic and take some of their original poetry and word work out for a test drive. And also for those, of course, who just want to listen. Samm is on hand to provide instantaneous musical backing to any poet who might happen to want it, and all are welcome to read, recite, intone, chant, grumble, shout or otherwise enunciate. Fun stuff, serious stuff, flights of fancy, hilarity, stream of consciousness, heaping helpings of free association and extended elocution. All for only a modest entry fee of 500 yen plus one drink. You'll probably want more than one, but one's all you gotta buy. Come early (opens at 7pm) to sign up for a slot!